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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
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This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
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They judge lest they be judged.
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Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
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A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.
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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
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What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
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In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
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